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nothing about cardboard cowboy?
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February 10, 2013 07:11:13pm |
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Terrible oversight.
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February 10, 2013 09:19:35pm |
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I think you meant this part, didn't you?
You're a girl. You fell in love with Bob Weir the first time you saw him at the Fillmore East—the rakish good looks, the adequate rhythm-guitar playing. You find the bad-cowboy Weir of "Me and My Uncle" very sexy, but it's the lovelorn Weir of "LLR" who swept you off your Birkenstocked feet.
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February 10, 2013 11:24:26pm |
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Yes, that's good. But I have to be my usually historically picky self ... I could be wrong or "misremembering," but IMO Birkenstocks weren't widespread until way later than his '73 date (not that I have any idea what was hip in '73), they were always too expensive, and they're terrible dancing shoes. The best shoes came from yard sales.
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February 11, 2013 10:32:36pm |
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No, the best shoes come from dumpsters.
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February 11, 2013 10:53:06pm |
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Now that's disgusting. Although I guess it depends on where the dumpster is located. I understand that Boulder dumpsters could be pretty good. Particularly behind the dorms at the end of the year. Too much trouble to move that $1000 mountain bike, dontcha know.
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February 11, 2013 06:10:27am |
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Totally agree - Birks were not popular until the early 80s, although they were around, according to their website
http://www.birkenstockusa.com/about/birkenstock-historyProbably more common in the medical field. Bare feet or sneakers would make for better dancing...
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February 11, 2013 07:11:14am |
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Ah, uj beat me to it: yes, it was defn something that came along later, and was more associated with "upscale sorts" from the E Bay ARea (I am sure that JOTS and High Flow each had a pair...ahem...and, one was NEVER to wear socks, unless one was an Italian film director, or so I've heard).
I never owned a pair, or went out with a gal that did; it would have been "selling out", in our very particular snooty way of looking at the world (putting on airs).
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February 13, 2013 11:57:41am |
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I also never owned or hung w/ anyone w/ them.Are earth shoes a different brand or the same deal?The 2 wildest pairs of foot ware I've seen in the rock world up close was Alvin Lee in his clogs and Joe Cocker w/a pair of boots that looked like a patch work quilt w/ each square a different color leather.I did have an association w/ these bands as I knew their road manager DEE Anthony.
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February 11, 2013 08:16:48am |
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Ew. Sandals, yuck. Never wore Birkenstocks. I wore basketball shoes everywhere....always ready for a game to break out. JOTS probably wore VANS.
The extent of my hippie fashion was a couple of tie-dyes. Though, even one of my tie-dyes was a white shirt which defined an NBA MVP as Patrick Ewing. I spruced it up with a snazzy design and some cool colors.
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February 11, 2013 11:35:58am |
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I think I did have a pair of vans at one point but it wasn't my normal wear. No I just wore tennis shoes. Except for the long hair I never really got into the hippy thing,just t-shirt and jeans. In fact I really still have sort of a problem with the whole white people in dread locks wearing nasty dirty sweaters and walking around barefoot in the filthy city. I always thought the whole scene was just as trendy and full of phonies as any other clique.
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February 11, 2013 11:58:52am |
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Well said.
I never got into the whole suburban-hippie thing either. Always had a feeling that a lot of those folks were trying just a little to hard to be perceived as getting "it" more than anyone else.
"Check me out with my unwashed hair and worn out Birkenstocks. I have never eaten anything that had eyes. I have over 1345 tapes in the back of my multicolored VW. Jerry calls me for song writing advice."
Pretty sure that as soon as a tour was over these individuals immediately showered, shaved, got a hair cut, put their Izod's and chinos back on, parked the VW, hopped into the shiny BMW Dad bought them for Arbor Day followed by a long drive to the country club for a hearty brunch of Panda nostrils.
This isn't to say that everyone who had dreads and wore sandals was a "poser"; to those who did what they did simply for the fact that it was who they were, I want to give all due repsect.
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February 11, 2013 12:30:47pm |
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huh? Its sad to say they are still around, and at every
fest I go to. The last fest I went to, a teenaged boy
wore down his buds Prius battery listening to Journey. Yes, Journey. All night. You cant make this shit up.
At the end of the weekend,
I offered him a jump start, but he declined. Sure enough
mommy and daddy showed up to save the day. Every one
laughed outloud. I didnt out of respect of the handful
of Adderall he gave me the night before. Come to find out
he had school the next day.
Dont stop believin...
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February 11, 2013 07:18:18pm |
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I know!! It kinda freaked me out when stumblin upon it.
thx for the link (again). Absolutely Fabulous.
If you want to start a 'fav' post, I will go first
Definitely 'Eyes' takes the cake for me. Hands down.
(Sorry Bertha)
Now you go...
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February 11, 2013 09:19:18pm |
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But the point isn't your fave song. It's what your fave song says about you. So, I take it that Eyes is your pick because you eat pandas? And other things with eyes?
It's too hard to pick a favorite, but when I have to, I generally say TOO and StSt. What that says about me is ... ummmm ... that I have good taste in music. Which is applicable to everyone here, I think. But definitely not to young Journey a la Prius. Someday he'll grow up. And then we can be scared. Very scared.
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February 12, 2013 12:03:50pm |
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I get it. But 'Eyes' really does represent me. I dont know
where the nut-thatch winters, but I do know my wings are a mile long. And I cant call my soul a critic, no. etc...
I find it intersting that your 2 favs are completely different.
One is free form with 2 short verses (TOO)that could go on
forever. And it has its basis: Getting busted for smilin on a cloudy day (true story) and Cowboy Neal (as we all
know, BLESS HIS SOUL)
And the other is a stuctured, very lyrical, and an
imaginative piece. What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned. You must be complicated.
PLEASE dont offense to that. Jokes... One man gathers what
another woman spills.
So does TOO and StSt represent you? Or they just your favs?
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
Did it matter, does it now?
I would answer if I only knew how.
Answers aplenty in the
bye and bye...
Sent from my Ipad~
edit ~
http://archive.org/details/gd1966-02-12.sbd.bershaw.9515.shnfanother edit ~intersting? that was before my 1st cup of coffee. interesting is I am sure what you must have read.
Maybe I should switch beverages...
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February 12, 2013 06:52:42pm |
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I think there are different categories: Favorite overall song and favorite lyrics aren't really the same. So for me, when I say "favorite song," I'm reacting to the whole sound, not necessariy the lyrics per se. That would be a whole other thread ......
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February 13, 2013 06:26:46am |
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oh gawd. not another thread... ;)
I understand and respect you opinion
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February 12, 2013 06:55:11am |
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Right on cue - THE NY Times has this to say about OUR good taste today:
AMERICANS didn’t always ask so many questions or expect so much in their quest for enjoyment. It was enough for them simply to savor a good cigar, a nice bottle of wine or a tasty morsel of cheese.
photo: A bottle of Chateau Petrus, Pomerol vintage 1975.
Not anymore. Driven by a relentless quest for “the best,” we increasingly see every item we place in our grocery basket or Internet shopping cart as a reflection of our discrimination and taste. We are not consumers. We have a higher calling. We are connoisseurs.
Connoisseurship has never been more popular. Long confined to the serious appreciation of high art and classical music, it is now applied to an endless cascade of pursuits. Leading publications, including The New York Times, routinely discuss the connoisseurship of coffee, cupcakes and craft beers; of cars, watches, fountain pens, lunchboxes, stereo systems and computers; of tacos, pizza, pickles, chocolate, mayonnaise, cutlery and light (yes, light, which is not to be confused with the specialized connoisseurship of lighting). And the Grateful Dead, of course.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/business/connoisseurship-expands-beyond-high-art-and-classical-music.html?_r=0A toast to my fellow connoisseurs!
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February 12, 2013 06:54:51pm |
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And then they don't even make another reference to Grateful Dead Connoisseurship. C'mon, NYT, where's the sidebar?
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February 11, 2013 01:50:22pm |
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Bingo. Yup, I knew I'd get J & Flow to let us know what they think about these posers, and that was what I was driving at with the "putting on airs" comment.
IE, the biggest thing we embraced about the DEAD was the MYTH (my/our "it") that we should be cynical, self absorbed, apolitical, anti-establishment-spare-me-your-cause music lovers that didn't want too many folks finding out what "it" was for fear such folks would show up and attempt to market or exploit "it" or in any way, shape, or form, impinge on our ability to enjoy "it".
Again, my big motivation for stopping 'it' in 82 (when I stopped going to the DEAD). "it" had to be something you came to organically; it had to develop with the least amount of external artefact possible, IMHO.
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February 11, 2013 03:01:50pm |
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Well done, I laughed out loud.
What kind of wine pairs best with Panda nostrils?
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February 12, 2013 04:55:16am |
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I find a nice merlot to best compliment the spongy aroma combined with the earthy hint of mucas found in the best Panda notstrils.
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February 11, 2013 07:38:06pm |
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I would go with beer. Beyond a Black and Tan and go with a Black and White
i.e. ~ Guinness with Sapporo, and Panda nostrils. yummy
And Ducats, dont listen to SDH, he is eeevil
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February 11, 2013 04:04:19pm |
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Panda nostrils?
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February 11, 2013 04:58:16pm |
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See SDH post above.
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February 12, 2013 05:43:36am |
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i did. my reply was to him. i don't get it?
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February 12, 2013 06:51:44am |
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I asked myself if I was a hardcore vegan who was also a lifetime member of the World Wildlife Fund, what would be the polar opposite of my normal meal choice?
Don't ask why Panda nostrils came to mind, but it seemed to work. If you'd rather, feel free to insert alternate choices such as California Condor liver, Relict Leopard Frog kidneys or perhaps Northern White Rhinoceros pancreas.
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February 11, 2013 10:42:12am |
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Ah, a man after my own heart...I too had to be ready for a game; I never owned a pair of flip flops til I was much older. You had to be ready at all times. I generally had three pairs of shoes: "good" (never used), tennis shoes (they didn't have bball ones til the 80s), and boots (hiking). Now, I have all sorts of them--they ever get thrown out--and you couldn't play anything in any of them...
But, I knew that would get your attn; the Berkeley gals, stereotype that they were, didn't really start wearing such footwear til later, and the ones at DEAD shows were almost always barefoot if I recall properly.
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February 11, 2013 09:42:03am |
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"1971: expands business to a small San Rafael, CA warehouse."
Conspiracy theorists should go with this one - who was actually behind the whole birkenstock proliferation that left us all surrounded by the stench of rotting leather and trustafarian hippy skank foot?
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February 10, 2013 09:20:51pm |
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Thanks. Mean, but a great laugh. No Eyes?
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February 11, 2013 10:34:47pm |
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No Bird Song? No Pigpen songs?!
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February 10, 2013 10:38:39pm |
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Yeah, Eyes might be for someone who is neither a preppie nor a waste case. No TOO, either.
It's very heavy on the preppie/frat boy/grew up-to-be-rich-East-Coast-guy examples. Which leads back to the notion, as per that New Yorker article, that either (a) there were a lot of preppie Deadheads, or (b) a lot of 40-ish East Coast writer types who happen to be Deadheads were also preppies who know frattish Deadheads who grew up to be rich East Coast guys.
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February 11, 2013 09:01:07am |
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A better question as posed to the wife:
"What does the fact that your husband even has a favorite GD song say about him?"
Honey, don't answer, the "look" says it all.
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February 11, 2013 08:54:53am |
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Whoa. The author was just a tad tough on the Dark Star crowd.
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February 11, 2013 09:10:32am |
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strat and SDH~ you guys fuckin slay me!
Excellent find AR per usual.
I think we could all do a huge post here on what our fav
song is, and why, to reveal the truth. I like LLR and I am
not a girl. Yet I do agree that: "You're still hunting for that great "Lazy Lightning"/"Supplication." Sadly for you, no such thing exists."
What about the underlooked One More Saturday Night? come on
Thats my take. Maybe we could find something in between.
Im game. Of course the first line says it all to me:
"The Grateful Dead just won't go away" (even if it was 4/2009)
Thank science (or God if you believe in Him) that there is something still right in the world.
Bertha? I hardly know ya...
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February 11, 2013 07:13:59pm |
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Leave it to you to steer me in the right direction.
(not like steer as in Dire's Bovine thoughts, I can hear his mouth watering from here)
Best version I have heard by far. Very aggresive.
I can actally count out the 7 beat measure. (see Est Prof)
Grate version. I will prolly never like it. Just too
cheesy for me always. But I say goddamn this second set
is off the fucking charts! The Good Lovin is makin my
neighbors want to call the cops. Thanks for all you do
Jerl, at all sites and all levels.
Hail to Jerrys 'fanning' the strings in Jan 78!
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February 12, 2013 08:53:22am |
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Glad you enjoyed that recommendation craven and thanks for the kind words, also let me add that you can always be counted on for a good laugh.
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February 11, 2013 09:39:36am |
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Touch of Grey |
As you drove away from UMass in your Dad's Infiniti with your degree in business administration, you put your only bootleg into the tape deck to reminisce one last time about keg stands in the parking lot of the Centrum and getting freaky with that one hippie chick in the bathroom at Brendan Byrne (until you discovered that she apparently felt shaving was optional). When the last song finishes, you promptly hit "eject" and toss the tape out the window, quickly replacing it with Tears For Fears greatest hit, ooops, hits, bringing back cloudy memories of funnels outside of Sig Ep.
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February 11, 2013 10:49:58am |
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Yeah, reading it over, this totally flubs w early era stuff. STrangely, I think most of us here could do much better with it, but the author represents the lesser known (to us) variety of latter-era heads I am always wondering about (methinks).
EG, StSt--voted most popular repeatedly, but is that only here and at deadhook? IE, those that really got "it" as opposed to those that only faked "it"? (by defn, those that came later couldn't have gotten "it", if you believe in "it"). The description of those that like StSt is really lame--doesn't make any sense unless you like Matrix III references (does anyone)?
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